Rickman (and back to: Spin-Offs)

[Mike]

> > Mike:
> > 
> > Has anybody seen "the January Man" 
> > 
> > Rickman plays Kevin Kline's gay, painter neighbor. I loved it.
> 
> 
> Potioncat:
> He was gay!
> 
> Why am I always the last to know?


Mike:
Kline's character says something like 'he bats from the other side
of the plate.' 

Don't know PC, your gay-dar on the fritz? Call tech support! ;-)

AR has some great snarky lines, but get's out snarked by Kline's 
character. But AR was at his understated best. I laughed at lots of 
both his and Kline's lines.

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Back to the original premise of your thread:

HPfGU has me reading stuff I never would have picked up before, 
mostly out of ignorance. I've now read all of the Narnia books, 
Susan Cooper's "The Dark is Rising" and will probably try more in 
the series. I also think I'll test "His Dark Materials". I've read 
all of Doug Adams' Hitchhiker's series, thank you Frood Dude. All 
because of discussions on OTC and Main. And I read more critically, 
nowadays, where before I only read for entertainment and didn't care 
whether the author was doing a good job of geting me involved in the 
story.

I've even ventured into some of the classics after reading comments 
from Carol, Alla, et al. I've even vowed to try to get through 'War 
and Peace' after all of Alla's praise. Heck, if I can read the 100 
page rant of John Gaunt, I should be able to make it through W&P.

I'm reading "Emma" right now, a little more than a third of the way 
through. A quick question, without giving away anything there might 
be to give away; does Emma stay the whiny, self-centered, rich brat 
that she is fo far, all the way through the book? I now know why I 
didn't read any of Austen before - I don't like *any* of the 
characters, so far. I hope that changes, John Knightley shows *some* 
promise. 

Mike, who has a few other classics on his shelf that he's never read 
but intends to read 'em ;-)